karlhorton wrote:Good old Bonnie Stewart, eh? Meandering through the toroids.
I couldn't remember where I'd seen this construction -- I just put it together from memory. I tried to look for it online and didn't find anything. You're likely right, I'm probably remembering it from Bonnie Stewart's fabulous Toroid book. I'd wondered if that's where I'd run across it.
I love that it's actually also stable without the blue triangles!
karlhorton wrote:Excellent photography, Clare, how did you do that? I'm bored of my black cloth backdrop.
Thanks! My favorite quick background is poster board, in whatever color suits my mood -- I have several I've gotten from a 99¢ store. For this shot, I put a little box on my bed (to make a stable platform for the object), covered it with the lower half of the poster board, and my sister held the back of it up while I snapped a few quick photos. If I'm taking more time about the photos, I'll fix a temporary attachment for the poster board back to something.